RE: Bad news for Coca Cola drinkers

What next – in flight McDonalds?

RE: Greatest Airlines of the World

In terms of “greatest” as opposed to “best” the winner for me, is British Airways.

1. The other Euro carriers have had too much government help.
2. The US carriers are too US-centric.
3. SIA is fantastic but lacks global reach.
4. Qantas ditto.
5. Aeroflot has traditionally been a very poor airline.

BA has great global connections and First and Biz classes are extremely good. It also flies Concorde!

RE: Funny screen savers

Hey – hope there are no Germans on this forum!

I wonder why you think Germans have no sense of humour??

RE: Pah, who needs Low Cost carriers anyway?!?!?

I guess most people would choose “full service” carriers over the low cost airlines if the price was roughly similar.

The drawbacks of low cost airlines are infuriating! They drop you off in a field 50 miles from the city you are trying to get to; if their services are cancelled they’ll put you on the next one – but go and find a park bench in the mean time! And the unallocated seating policies just seems silly.

As long as you can avoid the taking-the-piss type of fares which the big carriers still charge if they can get away with it (or charging £500 for a biz class ticket even though the seats are the same as economy!). I’d personally stick with the devil I know best!

RE: New Virgin Atlanic routes

Agreed, they’ll do their best to create synergies.

But that will only be incidental to the Aussie routes, not a reason for them.

RE: New Virgin Atlanic routes

I’m not so sure.

Virgin atlantic and Virgin blue are segmentally positioned quite differently.

The business models of each seem fairly different to me.